Marin Headlands!
After strolling the Farmer’s Market (mmmmm, fresh warm naan) in the morning, Mike, Amit, and I headed up 280-N to the Golden Gate Bridge. Weather in the Bay Area can be highly volatile — you trust short-term weather reports far less here, especially as you travel through the micro-climates which seem to occur every 15 miles you go up the peninsula. Anyway — it looked like the weather in Marin was going to clear up and since Mike was checking into his hotel at 7th & Market that afternoon anyway, we decided it an opportune time to check out the Marin Headlands.
Marin County is just across the Golden Gate Bridge and offers great views of the bay and the City.
Check out some of the views:
Terrell has a practice of taking a shot of him ‘leaping’ at all these places around the world — I saw him take one of leaping over Half Dome at Yosemite last summer. I quickly recognized an opportunity here, and we got the following:
Hehehe. Another family saw what we were doing and since I was already lying on the ground anyway, their two daughters tried a leap as well.
Afterward we walked a bit on the bridge a bit. The wind wasn’t even as bad as I thought.
We headed to the Good Hotel where Mike checked in. This hotel really pushes green and sustainability and positive sociatal impact. The lobby had a real One-Laptop-Per-Child device — first time I’d actually seen one. The UI was pretty confusing, but was sorta impressed they had a ‘Measure’ app with a lightweight frequency spectrum plot of the mic input.
Tim, the ’04 Park who I went to Yosemite with last summer, was still at work getting ready for GDC, and we met up and had a coffee in the financial district near the Havok offices. He’s taking some intensive Japanese courses on the weekends. Afterward Amit and I headed to the Mission District and found a Vietnamese restaurant for pho, which was great (first time having pho). The area was surprisingly quiet, but I had a feeling that the buzz was closer to 21st Street.
After returning to Stanford, we watched Tropic Thunder, which was really, really, funny. Robert Downey Jr. was superb. Another pretty nice day for spring break — now for a bit of work these next few days.
Donny Said,
March 24, 2009 @ 11:21 am
Excellent leaping photos haha
I sure wish I could’ve stuck around longer!
erin Said,
March 24, 2009 @ 10:17 pm
I started jumping in pictures a few years ago too. I have several from the Marin headlands and around the bay… dressed up as santa claus
http://tinyurl.com/dy3cj6
My friend got one of those OLPC laptops. She is a (very busy) computer engineer and I think she thought the UI was too complicated to be worth her time. haha. Do you think it’s confusing b/c we are used to a particular interface and their way is actually better for someone who never used a computer before? I haven’t used one myself.
Saket Said,
March 25, 2009 @ 1:17 am
The OLPC is really confusion. It’s mostly icon based it seems…and just the window management in general felt very clunky.